The Register continues coverage on the Microsoft updates issue, with some analysis on what’s going on and some posted workarounds for people who want to patch their security holes sooner rather than later.

Microsoft’s problems with the Windows Update site are more complex and widespread than first appeared. Users have been having sporadic problems accessing Windows Update for some days now, but “internal DNS server problems” have meant that Microsoft staff haven’t been able to get to numerous sites from the company’s internal network.

Addendum, 10:18 AM: The Register also covers an interesting lawsuit by Microsoft against Lindows.com, developers of software to run Windows software under Linux. There’s also a story on a very simple workaround that entirely defeats Microsoft Internet Explorer privacy settings. And Wired reports on yet another IE security hole, which can’t be fixed thanks to the issues with the updater site.